Behind the Victorian Novel: Scott's Chronicles

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McAleavey, Maia

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British & Irish literature

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Indiana University Press

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Winter 2019

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Victorian studies, Volume 61, Number 2, Winter 2019, pp. 232-239

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eng

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Despite the significance of Walter Scott's fiction for Victorian writers, he is too often either left outside of our literary lineages or only incorporated as a leading figure in historical fiction. I argue that Scott was the foundational novelist for a definitive form of Victorian fiction, the chronicle. Chronicles exhibit three key features: first, they are more likely to have settings (the Highlands, Barsetshire, Carlingford) than plots; second, chronicles are potentially endless; and third, they are non-protagonistic, telling the story of a group rather than an individual. These features can all be found in Scott's metafictional prefaces and frame narratives, which set the tone for an important strand of nineteenth-century fiction in the chronicles of writers such as Charlotte Yonge, Anthony Trollope, and Margaret Oliphant.

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